The European Space Agency's Intermediate Experimental Vehicle (IXV) programme will begin its preliminary design review on 4 November with a test flight target of 2012. Launched by ESA's new Vega ...

ESA’s experimental reentry vehicle passed its milestone descent and landing test on Wednesday at the Poligono Interforze Salto di Quirra off the east coast of Sardinia in Italy. The full-scale ...

Arianespace announced today that the European Space Agency (ESA) in conjunction with the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) have postponed the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) launch ...

This is ESA’s video unveiling of its Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, a test-bed for a next-generation reentry pod. The IXV is due to rocket aloft on Europe’s new small Vega launcher in 2012 and ...

Plenty of European astronauts and hardware have gone up to the space station or to other orbits around Earth, but now the European Space Agency is thinking of ways to get them back down on their own.

An experimental re-entry vehicle concept to test critical reusable launch vehicle (RLV) technologies will be selected this month for the European Space Agency's Future Launcher Preparatory Programme ...

The IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, installed on its payload adapter, is being prepared for launch, at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 27 January 2015. IXV will be launched 320 ...

The European Space Agency successfully tested a prototype mini-shuttle Wednesday, gathering valuable data for construction of a possible future spacecraft capable of ferrying cargo and people between ...

The company was also involved in the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) project, NASA's X-38 Crew Rescue Vehicle program, the VéHicule Hypersonique RéUtilisable AéRoporté (VEHREA), and Véhicule ...

ESA’s unmanned spaceplane, IXV, was lifted onto the payload adapter on 26 January 2015 at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The adapter will be used to fix IXV to the Vega rocket. With ...